Vintage skateboards in hot demand: photos

Updated February 26 2016 - 4:45pm, first published 4:31pm

It was the summer of 1965 that the skateboard fad really took off in Australia. Those first boards were lethal contraptions but are now keenly sought after, usually by those who rode them 50 years ago.

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